The complexities and scope of environmental issues have not only outpaced the capacities and responsiveness of traditional political actors but also generated new innovations, constituencies, and approaches to governing environmental problems. In response, comparative environmental politics (CEP) has emerged as a vibrant and growing field of scholarly inquiry, embracing new questions and methods even as it addresses enduring questions in the broader field of comparative politics. Utilizing a range of methodological approaches, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics delves into more traditional forms of CEP--the political economy of natural resources and the role of corporations and supply chains--while also showcasing new trends in CEP scholarship, particularly the comparative study of environmental injustice and intersectional inequities.
Moving beyond the field's earlier work that focused on cross-national comparisons of political institutions, regulatory styles, and state-society relations, the Handbook includes approaches from political science, anthropology, sociology, geography, gender theory, law, human rights, and development studies. Moreover, the chapters highlight scholarship from a broader range of regions, and analyze the construction and diffusion of norms, rights, ethics, and ideology across the globe and through various social movements (with a focus on approaches from the Global South). Including 42 chapters, organized across 9 sections, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics explores some of the most important environmental issues through the lens of comparative politics, including energy, climate change, food, health, urbanization, waste, and sustainability.

Jeannie Sowers is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include comparative and international environmental politics, with a regional specialization in the Middle East and North Africa.
Stacy D. VanDeveer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His research interests include EU environmental and energy politics, global environmental policymaking and institutions, comparative environmental politics, the roles of expertise in policymaking, and the global politics of resources and consumption.
Erika Weinthal is Professor of Environmental Policy and Public Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. She specializes in global environmental politics and environmental peacebuilding, with an emphasis on water and energy.

List of Contributors
Introduction: Comparative Environmental Politics
Jeannie Sowers
Erika Weinthal
Stacy D. VanDeveer
Part 1: STATES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
1. The Environmental State and its Limits
James Meadowcroft
2. California's Environmental Policy Leadership
David Vogel
3. Assessing 30 Years of Neoliberal Environmental Management in Chile: Effective, Democratic or Neither?
Javiera Barandiarán
4. Environment and Development: Crossing the Divide between Global South and Global North
Kathryn Hochstetler
5. National Climate Mitigation Policy in Europe
Paul Tobin
Louise Wylie
6. Governing Flood and Climate Risks in Netherlands and Hungary: A Comparative Approach
Elizabeth Albright
7. The Politics of Climate Disasters, Social Inequality, and Perceptions of Government Assistance
Isabella Alcañiz
Ana Ivelisse Sanchez-Rivera
8. Implementation of International Environmental Law: A Comparative Perspective
Maria Ivanova
Natalia Escobar-Pemberthy
Anna Dubrova
Candace Famiglietti
9. Comparative International Fisheries Management
Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Part 2: METHODS AND CONCEPTUAL CONSIDERATIONS
10. Interpretive Methodologies, Quantitative Methods, and Comparative Environment Politics
J. Samuel Barkin
V. Miranda Chase
Saskia van Wees
11. Ethnography in Comparative Environmental Politics: Insights from the Water and Waste Fields
Raul Pacheco-Vega
12. An Intersectional Exploration of Climate Institutions
Annica Kronsell
Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir
Nanna Rask
Benedict E. Singleton
13. Gender and Comparative Environmental Politics: Examining Population Debates Through Gender Lenses
Nicole Detraz
Part 3: Movements and Activism
14. Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Animal Liberation Movements: Confronting the Problem of Social Difference
David Naguib Pellow
15. Civil Society, Networks and Contention around Environmental Issues
Jennifer Hadden
Jennifer Iris Allan
16. Time and Place in Climate Activism: Three Urgency-Induced Debates
Joost de Moor
17. The Comparative Politics of Environmental Activism in Russia: Strategic Adaptation to Authoritarianism
Laura A. Henry
18. Anglo Fears: Rejection of Climate Science and Anglo Anxiety
Peter J. Jacques
19. Civil Disobedience, Sabotage, and Violence in US Environmental Activism
Joseph Brown
Part 4: Markets and Firms in Comparative Environmental Politics
20. Territory, Private Authority, and Rights: The Place of Land Rights in Sustainable Agriculture and Forest Certification
Tim Bartley
21. Comparing Voluntary Sustainability Standards: Blindspots, Biases, and Pathways Forward
Hamish van der Ven
22. Continuity and Change in Carbon Market Politics
Carley Chavara
Christian Elliot
Matthew Hoffman
Matthew Paterson
Part 5: Environmental Justice and Rights
23. The Comparative Politics of Environmental Justice
Kemi-Fuentes George
24. Toward a Comparative Politics of Environmental Justice: Critical Perspectives on Representation, Equity, and Rights
Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya
25. Globalization of Environmental Justice: A Framework for Research
Prakash Kashwan
26. Rights of Nature: Institutions, Law and Policy for Sustainable Development
Craig Kauffman
27. Implementing Environmental Rights: Reviewing the Evidence from Research and Practice
Joshua Gellers
Chris Jeffords
28. Gendering the Human Right to Water in the Context of Sustainable Development
Farhana Sultana
Part 6: Natural Resources and Political Economy
29. Green Industrial Policy in Comparative Perspective: Supporting Renewable Energy Industry Development in Emerging Economies
Joanna I. Lewis
30. Natural Resources and the Politics of Distribution
Mohannad Al-Suwaidan
Nimah Mazaheri
31. Temporality, Limited Statehood, and Africa's Abandoned Mines
W. R. Nadège Compaoré
Nathan Andrews
32. Illegal Wildlife Trade in the Mekong: The Interplay of Actors, Legal Governance, and Political Economy
Songkhun Nillasithanukroh
Ekta Patel
Edmund Malesky
Erika Weinthal
Part 7: THE POLITICS OF ENERGY TRANSITIONS
33. Fracked Taxpayers and Communities: Shale Economies in US and Argentina
Shanti Gamper-Rabindran
34. Renewable Energy, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change: Opportunities and (Many) Challenges
Michaël Aklin
35. Renewable Energy Supply Chains and the Just Transition
Dustin Mulvaney
36. The Rise and Fall of Fossil Fuels: Two Moments in the Energy History of the Middle East and their Global Consequences
Daniel Rabinowitz
Part 8: Cities And Sustainability
37. Cities and the Environment in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Agency-Centered Research Agenda
Christopher Gore
38. Reclaiming the Circular Economy: Informal Work and Grassroots Power
Manisha Anantharaman
39. Urban Climate Adaptation: Discontents and Alternative Politics
Eric Chu
Linda Shi
Part 9: Environment, Resources and Violence
40. War and Environmental Politics: A Comparative Perspective
Jeannie Sowers
Erika Weinthal
41. Climate and Conflict: Lessons from the Syria Case
Marwa Daoudy
42. The Integration of Conservation and Security: Political Ecologies of Violence and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Rosaleen Duffy
Francis Massé